Le Chef

What happens when a temperamental three-star chef and an opinionated wannabe master chef team up to stop a greedy businessman from taking over a restaurant? Why, a delightful French comedy - but of course!

In Daniel Cohen's "Le Chef," a young up-and-comer (Michael Youn) and a veteran master (Jean Reno) must come up with the perfect, modern menu to maintain those Michelin stars. If they don't, the restaurant's CEO - a philistine more interested in frozen and microwaveable foods - will take control and hand the restaurant over to a pompous British chef.

In "Le Chef" (not to be confused with the American movie "Chef'), the young man's diva-ish attitude keeps getting him fired as a cook at restaurants that aren't exactly haute cuisine - in one case, it's just a blue-collar dive. His girlfriend is pregnant, and so he takes on a job as a house painter to get a steady income. When he stumbles upon a trio of inexperienced cooks at a senior citizen home, he becomes their mentor.

Turns out the CEO's father, who is disappointed with his son, lives at the home and is a friend of Alexandre (Reno) - and voila! Alexandre discovers the young man's hidden talents and offers him an unpaid internship at his LeGarde restaurant.

It's definitely not love at first sight for this odd couple, which makes for good laughs, but their love of food and life enables them to find the right mix of ingredients for a very funny movie.